It’s been dead for a few days now and resisted numerous attempts to revive it but I am happy to say that threatening to take it to the Genius Bar persuaded my iPod Touch to wake up from the dead. I was able to successfully restore it to factory condition while attached to the HP Windows PC, and even though I had tried that several times before it actually worked a little while ago. I was able to purchase and install the update for email and the other apps and right now it’s syncing my music collection from scratch. I wonder why the thought of those geniuses scared it into submission? The MacBook Pro is still not cooperating though so I guess it’s not scared enough.
UPDATE: scratch that, while halfway through syncing my music it took itself down and hung up with the Apple logo on-screen. I’m really starting to hate that logo with all the hangups and rebooting I’ve been doing.
UPDATE 2: the iPod finally restarted after a minute and is now continuing the syncing. Sheesh.
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